Pentecost

John 20:22 (Spiritual Succession; What Pentecost Represents for Christians Today)

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Immediately following Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, after telling his disciples that as the Father had sent Him so was He sending them, the apostle John notes that Jesus “breathed on them, and said to them, ‘Receive the Holy Spirit’” (Joh 20:22).  This was not his version of the outpouring of the Holy Spirit that…

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John 20:22 (Jesus Breathes into His Disciples the Holy Spirit)

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Writing after the other gospels had long been in circulation, John in His gospel notes several things about Jesus’ first resurrection appearance to His apostles that in the intervening years the Lord reminded him of that were significant.  It was John who records that the doors were shut for fear of the Jews, that Jesus’…

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